Eight human qualities

I. Humility

A blade of grass am I.
Ere long my breath shall die.
Wilt Thou not show thy Face
And feed my hope with Grace?

God has yet to fix the value of humility. Humans do not yet know its profound worth.

The seed of humility is exceptionally fertile. It may not germinate plants of power and force, but it does yield flowers of Sweetness, Grace, Modesty and Light.

Love for the Divine is in its essence a spontaneous spiritual humility.

Humility has no need to sit on the King's throne. But the King cannot help bringing the throne to humility. And now who is the King? God's Compassion.

A prayer, in its simplest and most effective definition, is humility, climbing the sky of an all-fulfilling Delight.

Only the true sense of humility can raise us from our knees as high as we aspire.

Humility is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We must realise that there is only one way of acquiring infinite future possibilities. That way lies in the great power: Humility.

Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 1, No. 8, 27 March 1966, Boro Park Printers -- Brooklyn, N. Y, 1966